Holy shit!

I hope there weren't a lot of people in it.

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April 29, 2023 2:15 AM

That's pretty scary. What mess too. Could you imagine if it's the end of your workday and you think you're just going to jump into your car and drive home, only to see that ?

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April 18, 2023 10:11 PM

Doesn't look nearly as catastrophic as it could have been. But yeah, ick.

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April 18, 2023 10:17 PM

"downtown New York City" ??? they seem to mean lower Manhattan

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April 18, 2023 10:23 PM

One guy interviewed by the news said that he still had to pay $27.00 to get his car out. It could be destroyed, but pay the parking fee. Under the circumstances, it couldn't be waived?

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April 18, 2023 10:29 PM

The Wall Street Club is (or was) just up the block. Hope those whores are ok!

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April 18, 2023 10:30 PM

They let people go in there already to get their cars? !!!!!! Yikes

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April 18, 2023 10:31 PM

[quote]One guy interviewed by the news said that he still had to pay $27.00 to get his car out. It could be destroyed, but pay the parking fee. Under the circumstances, it couldn't be waived?

Hey! Was the damn thing parked? It's after 5:00 at night now. Your car was sitting here all day. You're damn right you're gonna pay.

by Anonymous

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April 18, 2023 10:33 PM

Any kind of building collapse is frightening to me, even worse to be trapped, immobile and still conscious.

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April 18, 2023 10:35 PM

You wonder how diligent building inspections are...do they take shortcuts to just get it done and over with, and sign off the papers?

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April 18, 2023 10:39 PM

Near Pace? I used to go down there to an electronics store decades ago. It was J&R. Largely destroyed by 9/11.

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April 18, 2023 10:43 PM

A million subway lines into lower Manhattan, what is the demographic of people who insist on driving and parking their car.

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April 18, 2023 10:57 PM

The mechanical dog, going into the rubble, is very cool.

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April 18, 2023 11:02 PM

Thanks for the update R10.

by Anonymous

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April 18, 2023 11:13 PM

R9- They found vertical cracks in the concrete in a 2003 inspection, apparently. I do know you can put off at least one building inspector in NYC if you show "proof" of a "plan" to address issues.

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April 18, 2023 11:13 PM

Everyone bow down before your new leader, the Bear King.

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April 19, 2023 12:03 AM

Shithole city strikes again.

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April 19, 2023 12:03 AM

I wonder if 9/11 undermined the building.

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April 19, 2023 12:08 AM

J AND R. Was not destroyed but 9/11… where do you people come up with your bullshit. Their buildings were demolished by choice, sold and redeveloped.

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April 19, 2023 12:35 AM

The Wiki article says it was destroyed. I think it meant in a business sense, R19. Read the article!

by Anonymous

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April 19, 2023 12:44 AM

I walked right past all the police cars and firetrucks earlier not realizing what had happened. This could have been so much worse. This part of the Financial District is super dense with lots of car and foot traffic, narrow streets, and rows of adjacent buildings.

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April 19, 2023 12:45 AM

Why would I rely on Wiki, for news of my own neighborhood retailer? Read the room, not Wiki, dolt.

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April 19, 2023 12:46 AM

R20. It was real estate profit taking, not 9/11 losses. Don’t be stupid.

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April 19, 2023 12:49 AM

I’m really paranoid about structural collapses and failures, that’s so scary!

by Anonymous

reply 24

April 19, 2023 12:49 AM

J&R closed in 2014…if anything the 2008-2012 recession killed it and not some that happened 13 years prior.

by Anonymous

reply 25

April 19, 2023 12:49 AM

But the owners seemed so nice, J&R had a great and sentimental back story!

by Anonymous

reply 26

April 19, 2023 12:51 AM

Dumbasses who don't live in NYC cannot even read or research things apparently.

Yes, J&R closed their Tribeca location, but it was years after 9/11/01 and had nothing to do with that event.

Yes, property was redeveloped, but again that had nothing to do with 9/11/01.

J&R like a too long list of electronics/record stores were done in by rise of internet including online shopping.

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April 19, 2023 12:58 AM

For those who don't live in NYC and don't understand real estate here Tribeca is one of the hottest areas city atm. One Park Row became what has happened to many once commercial buildings in lower Manhattan/FiDi area, either converted to luxury housing or buildings torn down and same built.

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April 19, 2023 1:02 AM

Founding family of J&R Music World likely made out like bandits. They owned those properties for decades which means cost of acquiring land wouldn't have been anywhere near if developers had to pay market rate.

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April 19, 2023 1:06 AM

It's a metaphor for a city that is collapsing. Even $100M can't guarantee a safe place.

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reply 32

April 19, 2023 1:14 AM

R26, I loved J&R back in the day.

R9, building inspectors are notorious for being willing to see things your way, for the right price.

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reply 33

April 19, 2023 1:14 AM

15 Park Row - the "Park Row Building" - once the tallest the in the world and for a number of years.

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reply 34

April 19, 2023 1:28 AM

Is this going to be another thread about how NY is so terrible ...it keeps leading to people paying more and more money in order to live there.

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reply 35

April 19, 2023 1:36 AM

I remember back in the day when the newsies were selling papes on Park Row.

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reply 36

April 19, 2023 1:39 AM

At a million bucks a stall this is like that Florida Condo collapse.

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reply 37

April 19, 2023 1:41 AM

The New York City Fire Department said that the deceased victim was believed to have been an employee at the parking garage.

Four people have been taken to the hospital, while the fifth injured person refused medical treatment.

Police said that six workers who were inside the five-floor garage when the structure caved in have been accounted for.

The structure, however, has been deemed unstable.

Neighboring buildings have also been compromised, according to reports.

The garage opened its gates to drivers in 1925, according to WABC.

by Anonymous

reply 38

April 19, 2023 1:45 AM

What R37 said.

And you NYC types have the nerve to point your fingers at FL?!?

Physician, heal thyself!

by Anonymous

reply 39

April 19, 2023 1:50 AM

There used to be a video floating around of a man in a parking garage entering the stairwell and the entire garage falling down around him, leaving just the stairwell. Lucky guy - but makes me think it happens more often than you'd think!

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reply 40

April 19, 2023 2:02 AM

The US is going to see a rapid increase of crumbling infrastructure.

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reply 41

April 19, 2023 2:09 AM

Is it Seinfeld’s? He owns one next to his building, I understand.

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reply 42

April 19, 2023 2:13 AM

I thought this only happened in developing countries. Scary.

by Anonymous

reply 43

April 19, 2023 2:17 AM

The Manhattan Parking Garage is an insatiable bottom and has just prolapsed hole!

by Anonymous

reply 44

April 19, 2023 2:44 AM

I'm thinking of that condo in Miami that collapsed. At that time, people were blaming the corrupt inspectors in Florida, but I'm guessing that salt air and concrete don't mix any better in NYC than in Miami.

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reply 45

April 19, 2023 3:16 AM

It’s been a parking garage since 1925? Talk about an insatiable bottom. No wonder it’s exhausted.

by Anonymous

reply 46

April 19, 2023 6:01 AM

How did the shaftway fair?

by Anonymous

reply 47

April 19, 2023 6:39 AM

Car owners often leave unmentionables and valuables in their vehicles during the day. It could be a gym bag, bath house gear, company laptop or special friend’s luggage.

Will owners ever have access to them again?

Will the cars be removed somehow or are they all a total loss?

Will lives be changed because replacing the car costs too much?

Who parked in the garage for a illicit hookup only to have this happen?

The stories of what people left in their cars (salaciousness or innocent) and how doing so impacted their lives would make an excellent ABC Monday Night Movie produced by Aaron Spelling and Douglas Cramer.

by Anonymous

reply 49

April 19, 2023 8:35 AM

The ground is sand there. No bedrock. The former tallest building in the world is built on a foundation of wooden logs. Like in Venice, Italy.

by Anonymous

reply 50

April 19, 2023 9:01 AM

[quote]BEARKING

The loser is back on Datalounge

by Anonymous

reply 51

April 19, 2023 9:19 AM

I have fond memories of dating a guy who went to Pace. I remember walking down Spruce street to go see him there. He lived on campus. Oh the fun times we had there!

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reply 52

April 19, 2023 10:46 AM

building code and REGULATION. See, this is why we need this.

by Anonymous

reply 53

April 20, 2023 12:38 AM

You arm chair quarterbacks who mostly don't live in NYC can stand down; FDNY has said what they believe may have caused roof to collapse; too many large vehicles parked on said roof.

Of course it's early days yet so nothing is official, but if you look at images of roof you see row upon row of large SUVs.

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reply 54

April 20, 2023 2:21 AM

Forget about Park Row what about 432 Park Ave.

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April 20, 2023 5:56 PM

[quote]if you look at images of roof

You type stupid.

by Anonymous

reply 56

April 21, 2023 4:15 PM

(^.^) to say nothing of fact that the images were of the top deck of the parking garage where there is no roof

by Anonymous

reply 57

April 21, 2023 10:32 PM

[quote]"downtown New York City" ??? they seem to mean lower Manhattan

Never change, Aspielounge. Never change.

by Anonymous

reply 59

April 29, 2023 2:15 AM